It's weird at first, but not that weird at all if you put yourself in his shoes.

It is feasible that someone could have taken her, raped/tried to rape her, and got blood on themselves as a result. He would have thought in his mind that posting that message will have increased the chance she would be found, even if it only increased the chance be a tiny tiny amount. But I can totally understand why he posted it, and I think I may do the same in such a situation when you aren't thinking clearly and in an utterly desperate state, wanting to help in any way you possibly can.

Any decent parent would do ANYTHING to get their kids back and of course he probably hasn't thought clearly since she's went missing and isn't going to particularly care what people think when he posts such messages. I just don't think it's right to make such a public story out of his obvious struggle.

I mean I assume that they can put any current footballer in the game, because playing for a club in a country that is a member of FIFA probably has some clause in some contract that says FIFA can use them in such things as games.

But I just thought in regards to retired players, can they just put anyone in the game they like? Or so they need to like agree a deal of some sort?

That doesn't necessarily mean it was a footballer that was arrested, though.

However, if it's an England player, it must be someone who hasn't played for a long time, maybe even just U21 level or something. The only 27 year old who has played for us in the last 12 months is Joe Hart, but I'm just gonna write him off straight away since there's no reason why he'd have a home in the north east to my knowledge...